There are about 18,000 species of wasps in North America. Roughly 20 of them can hurt you.
The wasps people fear are all from one family: Vespidae. They make up less than 1% of wasp species on the continent. They build the visible nests, they defend them aggressively, and they're the ones you remember from a bad encounter.
The other 99% live solitary lives and ignore humans entirely. Many can't sting at all. Many more have stingers but never use them on people because they don't have a nest to defend.
What they do instead is hunt other insects. A single mud dauber stocks her nest with paralyzed spiders, including widows and recluses. A braconid wasp lays eggs in tomato hornworms. An ichneumon wasp parasitizes wood-boring beetles that kill ash trees. A cuckoo wasp infiltrates the nests of other wasps and bees. Some species control aphids; others control caterpillars, beetle grubs, or flies.
Most agricultural pest insects in North America are controlled, in part, by parasitic wasps that almost no human ever sees. There are over 25,000 species of ichneumon wasps alone, and they keep entire orders of insects in check.
The five or so wasp species that ruin a picnic in late August are real. The 17,995 species that are running the pest control infrastructure of an entire continent get almost none.
Seth Rogen: “I smoke weed all day every single day”
“I equate it to shoes or glasses are shoes a crutch we use or are they a thing that we have culturally decided to make our lives easier and better that is exactly how weed is to me”
Drake is the first artist in HISTORY to have 17 albums chart simultaneously on US Apple Music 🔥🤯
💿 ICEMAN (#1)
💿 MAID OF HONOUR (#2)
💿 HABIBTI (#3)
💿 $$$4U (#15)
💿 Take Care (#16)
💿 Views (#20)
💿 Certified Lover Boy (#25)
💿 For All The Dogs (#29)
💿 Nothing Was The Same (#43)
💿 Her Loss (#44)
💿 Scorpion (#45)
💿 Thank Me Later (#47)
💿 More Life (#64)
💿 Honestly, Nevermind (#74)
💿 IYRTITL (#80)
💿 Dark Lane Demo Tapes (#85)
💿 Care Package (#108)
Drake has BEEN tapped in with the Bay Area , not only is he close as hell w/ Mac Wanda …his uncle was also the bassist in Sly and The Family Stone (Larry Graham) …not only that he’s rapping on a P-Lo/Karri beat …Drake loves The Bay and has roots here …stop the HATE!
Based on 2025 Spotify purge reports from ChartMasters, Reddit, and industry sources, top 10 artists with significant stream removals:
1. Kendrick Lamar (UMG) ~235M
7. Doechii (UMG) ~100M
WE DIDNT FORGET https://t.co/WoF28ILh5H
Drake shouts out Tyrese Haliburton on a new ICEMAN track:
“If my albums were jump-shots they’d be game-winners
Hooks on hooks, like a shower curtain
3 at the buzzer, that’s a Haliburton” https://t.co/cvgx2lZsTi